After Japan announced today that it will start discharging wastewater from the Fukushima power plant this Thursday, the Hong Kong and Macao governments quickly responded with decisions to suspend imports from some Japanese prefectures.

In recent years, the United States has pushed [https://www.cato.org/policy-analysis/development-dimension-what-do-about-differential-treatment-trade] to bring new disciplines to the the area of special and differential treatment for developing countries at the WTO, and to the practice of self-declaration of developing country status. As part of Macao’s recent trade